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Islamabad: Rape accused arrested after IHC rejects bail

Islamabad: Rape accused arrested after IHC rejects bail

ISLAMABAD: The IslamabadPolice Thursday arrested a rapeaccused, RafaqatMehmood, after JusticeShaukatAzizSiddiqui of the IslamabadHighCourt (IHC) rejected his pre–arrestbailapplication.

The accused had escaped arrest after an additionalsessionsjudge (ASJ) of Islamabad had rejected his bail on July12.

The man is allegedlyinvolved in the rape of twojuvenilesisters along with his real brother and another accomplice.

On July12, RafaqatMehmood moved the court of an additional sessionsjudge for pre–arrestbail. The judgerejected his plea and he escaped from the court.

This time around, policeapprehended him after the IHCjudgerejected his bail. As per policeinvestigation, RafaqatMehmood, along with his brotherShaukatMehmood and taxi driver AbuzarGhaffariabducted the twogirls from their house in Saidpurvillage of Islamabad when their parents were at the Polyclinic for treatment.

According to police reports, the accusedabducted the girls when they were alone in their house on April 9, 2013. The accused initially took the girls to a guesthouse in Sector F-7/4 of Islamabad where the three raped them and then they took them to Rawalpindi and kept them in a hotel for a couple of days. The IslamabadPoliceapprehended the accused at Faizabadcheckpost when the girls told policeofficials about their detention and rape. The IslamabadPolice produced the girls before a districtmagistrate where they recorded their statements and the magistrate then sent them to DarulAman. The girls were later handedover to their parents. While intercepting the accused at Faizabad checkpost, police had arrestedShaukat and taxidriverAbuzarGhaffari while Rafaqat escaped from the scene.

In his bailplea on Thursday, Rafaqat, through his counsel MushtaqHussain, adopted before the court that there was no direct evidence against him connecting him with the crime and policearrested him on mere suspicion. The counsel prayed to the court to grantbail to his client.

A deputyattorneygeneral (DAG), TariqMehmoodJahangiri, on the other hand, opposed the bail and told the court that the victim girls had recorded their statements against Rafaqat which was sufficient to establish the crime. According to him, the statements of victims were more than enough in the rapecase because it was very difficult for the victims of rape to produce witnesses to verify the allegations. The court, after hearing arguments from both sides, rejected the bailplea.